I completed secondary school in Hoorn, at the Werenfridus, Scholengemeenschap Tabor, in 2003. I obtained a Bachelor of Science (cum laude/with honours), in Developmental Psychology in 2006, followed by a Master of Science (cum laude/with honours) in Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Psychology in 2008, both from the University of Amsterdam. During and following graduation, I was involved in various teaching activities at the University of Amsterdam and I ran the secretariat for the national cognitive psychology graduate school EPOS.
In June 2015, I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation, which was based on research conducted under supervision of Sander Nieuwenhuis at Leiden University (NL), and focused on the effects of noradrenaline on temporal attention and uncertainty processing. I am also involved in a recently published book on the psychology of action and perception in collaboration with professor Bernhard Hommel.
In 2018, I worked as a sessional instructor at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa (ON, Canada), teaching a course on Brain and Behaviour. I started to work as an instructor at Red Deer College (AB, Canada) in August 2018 and I am now employed as a probationary-continuous instructor there, teaching introductory psychology, statistics, and cognitive neuroscience-based courses.
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- Ford, N. J., Gomes, L. M., & Brown, S.B.R.E. (2023). Brave spaces in nursing ethics education: Courage through pedagogy. Nursing Ethics, 31, 101-113.
- Bearden, A. G., van Oostrom, S., & Brown, S.B.R.E. (2023). The effects of HeartMath Heart Lock-in on elementary students’ HRV and self-reported emotion regulation skills. Psychology in the Schools, 60, 5245-5263.
- Brown, S.B.R.E. (2023). The persistence of matching teaching and learning styles: A review of the ubiquity of this neuromyth, predictors of its endorsement, and recommendations to end it. Frontiers in Education, 8:1147498.
- Duthie-Woodford, K.L., & Brown, S.B.R.E. (2022). Early prisoner release due to COVID-19: Effects on Canadians’ opinions. Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research, 7, 36-40.
- Brown, S.B.R.E., Brosschot, J.F., Versluis, A., Thayer, J.F., & Verkuil, B. (2020). Assessing new methods to optimally detect episodes of non-metabolic heart rate variability reduction as an indicator of psychological stress in everyday life: A thorough evaluation of six new methods. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14:564123.
- Jepma, M., Brown, S.B.R.E., Murphy, P.R., Koelewijn, S.C., de Vries, B., van den Maagdenberg, A.M., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2018). Noradrenergic and cholinergic modulation of belief updating. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 1803-1820. [shared first-authorship]
- Brown, S.B.R.E., Brosschot, J.F., Versluis, A., Thayer, J.F., & Verkuil, B. (2018). New methods to optimally detect episodes of non-metabolic heart rate variability reduction as an indicator of psychological stress in everyday life. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 131, 30-36.
- Hommel, B., Brown, S.B.R.E., & Nattkemper, D. (2016). Human action control: From intentions to movements. New York: Springer.
- Tona, K.-D., Murphy, P.R., Brown, S.B.R.E., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2016). The accessory stimulus effect is mediated by phasic arousal: A pupillometry study. Psychophysiology, 53, 1108-1113.
- Naber, M., Brown, S.B.R.E., Vedder, A., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2016). Speed and lateral inhibition of stimulus processing contribute to individual differences in Stroop-task performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:822.
- Brown, S.B.R.E., Slagter, H.A., van Noorden, M.S., Giltay, E.J., van der Wee, N.J.A., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2016). Effects of clonidine and scopolamine on multiple target detection in rapid serial visual presentation. Psychopharmacology, 233, 341-350.
- Brown, S.B.R.E., van der Wee, N.J.A., van Noorden, M.S., Giltay, E.J., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2015). Noradrenergic and cholinergic modulation of late ERP responses to deviant stimuli. Psychophysiology, 52, 1620-1631.
- de Rover, M., Brown, S.B.R.E., Band, G.P.H., Giltay, E.J., van Noorden, M.S., van der Wee, N.J.A., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2015). Beta receptor-mediated modulation of the oddball P3 but not error-related ERP components in humans. Psychopharmacology, 232, 3161-3172.
- Brown, S.B.R.E., Tona, K.-D., van Noorden, M. S., Giltay, E. J., & van der Wee, N.J.A. (2015). Noradrenergic and cholinergic effects on speed and sensitivity measures of phasic alerting. Behavioral Neuroscience, 129, 42-49.
- Brown, S.B.R.E., van Steenbergen, H., Kedar, T., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2014). Effects of arousal on cognitive control: Empirical tests of the conflict-modulated Hebbian learning hypothesis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:23.
- de Rover, M., Brown, S.B.R.E., Boot, N., Hajcak, G., van Noorden, M.S., van der Wee, N.J., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2012). Beta receptor-mediated modulation of the late positive potential in humans. Psychopharmacology, 219, 971-979.
- Brown, S.B.R.E., van Steenbergen, H., Band, G.P.H., de Rover, M., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2012). Functional significance of the emotion-related late positive potential. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:33.
- Brown, S.B.R.E., & Ridderinkhof, K. R. (2009). Aging and the neuro-economics of decision-making: A review. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 365-379.
